Cloudmark research company recorded a wave of spam attacks, which have undergone a corporate messenger users Apple. Owners receive promotional messages iPhone, iPad and Mac, living in large American cities - New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, Miami.
"New York became the fourth region, after Los Angeles, San Diego and Miami, where it was received the most spam messages. Of all SMS-spam, recorded in the Big Apple for the past two months, 47% are owners iPhone », - said the Cloudmark. As part of a spam attack users iMessage receive promotional notices from the proposal to move to sites brands Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Prada and Ray Ban Sunglasses.
In March last year, several application developers have been bombarded with spam through the service iMessage. Hackers used to attack customers service and desktop Mac-standard tool for automating actions AppleScript. Program with a high frequency of messages sent are iMessage, resulting in a denial of service of service.
But if the purpose of the conventional DDoS-attack is to overload the server and creates an environment in which his work is blocked in the case of iMessage hackers decided thus "make fun" of developers.
Earlier on Apple's official site appeared instruction , in which the company described the actions of the owner iPhone, iPad and Mac when receiving unsolicited messages in iMessage.
In fact, spam is quite simple. In iOS 7 is a function of " black list "- the operating system makes it easy to block unwanted callers. In the case of iOS 6 is impossible, and the only way to get rid of spam - write about it in Apple.